Elfenbein, Andrew. Romantic Genius: The Prehistory of a Homosexual Role. Columbia University Press.
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Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Bannerman | The volume was well reviewed, and poems were reprinted in two magazines. Literary commentators like Thomas Park
, Joseph Cooper Walker
, and Joseph Martin
, assured Robert Anderson
of their admiration. Elfenbein, Andrew. Romantic Genius: The Prehistory of a Homosexual Role. Columbia University Press. 131 and n28 |
Publishing | Natalie Clifford Barney | The volume was published in a limited edition of 680. Barney, Natalie Clifford. Poems & poèmes. Émile-Paul Frères and George H. Doran. back matter |
Intertextuality and Influence | A. S. Byatt | One reviewer noted ASB
's fascination with the symbolic world of the fairy tale, the dream and the artist's vision shape both the style and the content. Rankin, Bill. “Byatt’s Stories Live Up to her High Standards”. Edmonton Journal, p. F7. F7 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Joanna Cannan | Alison Dunbar, lonely among her fashion-conscious and shopping-mad schoolmates, begins writing her pony story in exercise books (as was Cannan's own habit) and attains the apotheosis of acceptance by a publisher. She also sheds the... |
Friends, Associates | Charles Cowden Clarke | CCC
was an important early friend of John Keats
. He also formed friendships with Leigh Hunt
, Douglas Jerrold
, Charles
and Mary Lamb
, and Charles Dickens
. Most of these friendships were... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Cowden Clarke | MCC
's parents frequently entertained eminent literary figures in a drawing-room where the paintings were all executed by distinguished friends. At an early age she became acquainted with Charles
and Mary Lamb
, Leigh Hunt |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Cowden Clarke | MCC
wrote a preface for this book, which includes accounts of Keats
, Charles
and Mary Lamb
, Douglas Jerrold
, and Dickens
. |
Textual Features | Eliza Cook | Her poetic topics strongly reflect her reliance on well-tried promoters of sentiment: death, parting, gypsies, favourite horses and dogs, local feeling for Scotland or Ireland. The collection closes with a section of poems for... |
Education | Marie Corelli | Looking back on her early education, MC
wrote I managed to develop into a curiously determined independent little personality, with ideas and opinions more suited to some clever young man. . . . I instinctively... |
Occupation | John Wilson Croker | JWC
became a lawyer, (moving from Ireland to London after the Act of Union) a Tory
MP, an editor of several eighteenth-century texts (including letters by Lady Hervey
and by Henrietta Howard, Lady Suffolk
)... |
Literary responses | Florence Dixie | Holyoake
, the dedicatee, in his prefatory piece (like W. Stewart Ross
commenting on The Story of Ijain) defends FD
's work not only by assertion (it is a a marvel of thought... |
Textual Production | Margaret Drabble | Again the title names an imaginary place: it is the phrase which Keats
applies to the territory of poetry in Upon First Looking into Chapman's Homer. It also suggests the heroine's work as an... |
Literary responses | Daphne Du Maurier | Rebecca was DDM
's best known work, earning her massive profits, and it has become one of the most widely read novels of all time. Kelly, Richard. Daphne du Maurier. Twayne. 66 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Carol Ann Duffy | The book was highly derivative. Though she had just discovered the poems of Pablo Neruda
, CAD
describes the contents of the volume as a mixture of Keats
and Sylvia Plath
and Dylan Thomas
and... |
Textual Features | Carol Ann Duffy | Titled simply September 2014 and headed with a Gaelic greeting that translates as I love you, this short poem highlights the shared prickliness of the two national symbols and the pilgrimage of an English... |